MONTREAL – Rogers said Wednesday that it has improved wireless service around Parc Delpha –Sauvé and Baie Saint-Francois in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield as part of its multi-year network plan to bring gigabit LTE and 5G to its customers.
Rogers and Fido customers will now have a faster, more reliable and consistent wireless experience in this residential, commercial and recreational area.
"Our customers want high quality wireless access wherever they are, whether it's working on the go, staying connected while running errands on Victoria Street, or using their device while relaxing in the park or on a boat," said Edith Cloutier, Rogers’ president of…
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TORONTO – To compete with OTT players, does ad-funded TV in Canada need a ‘Big Hairy Audacious Goal’ to focus the entire industry? If so, what would that rallying cry look like?
The BHAG was one of the stated aims of an industry panel session on the future of ad-funded TV in Canada at the Future TV Advertising Forum Canada at the Steam Whistle Brewery in Toronto last week.
The panel did not unite over a single big hairy goal, but did identify some smaller furballs – like broadcasters needing to collaborate more on content creation, strengthening channel branding and…
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OTTAWA – After having paused for Parliament’s summer recess, the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology reconvened in the nation’s capital on Wednesday to continue its statutory review of the Copyright Act.
Representatives from the Canadian Network Operators Consortium, Société des auteurs de radio, télévision et cinema, the Movie Theatre Association of Canada and the Professional Music Publishers' Association faced the committee this week. (Some larger organizations will face the committee next week from the likes of Bell, Quebecor, Rogers, Stingray Digital, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, Teksavvy and Shaw Communications.)
Canadian Network Operators Consortium (a group of independent ISPs)…
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VANCOUVER – Rogers and the University of British Columbia (UBC) are teaming up to build a real-world 5G hub on the UBC campus in Vancouver that will be “a testbed and blueprint for 5G innovation in Canada.”
Thursday’s announcement said that the three year, multi-million dollar partnership will see 5G-ready network equipment and infrastructure deployed at UBC starting early next year, designed to study 5G applications such as monitoring cars and traffic to develop smarter and safer cities. Other research interests include autonomous vehicles, machine learning, artificial intelligence and network slicing technology for use in robotics, farming and medical applications.
Rogers said…
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GATINEAU – In the continuing saga of the skinny (a.k.a. lower-cost data only) wireless, the CRTC must be wondering if it would not have just been easier to mandate MVNO.
In the latest request for information, Cartt.ca had noted the tone of the letter and the volume of information requested. The three incumbent national wireless players seem to heed the message and proposed to double the amount of data originally offered.
But what we had missed was the questions asked to the three incumbent national wireless players were also asked of the Competition Bureau.
The Questions
Indicate whether lower-cost data only…
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ST ANDREWS, N.B. – What are you doing? What do you need to do? What do you want to do? What stands in your way? These and various other questions were posed this year to a roster of Canadian Communications Systems Alliance member companies by consultants Broadband Success Partners, who presented their findings Monday at the CCSA annual convention.
Canada’s independent operators are obsessed with providing the best broadband experience, the best customer service and the best TV service, while knowing they want to compete on the TV Everywhere front, and to push fibre as deep as possible in order…
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RADIO RATINGS ANALYSIS is a complex task, as we noted last week. For radio station promotion departments getting their quarterly analysis in Canada's five largest markets, it's about toying with the numbers — age, gender, time of day, relative growth — until your station becomes number one, or at least number one in categories advertisers like.
But what about longer-term trends? We took Numeris top-line ratings data over the past seven years to capture portraits of stations in those five major markets who made changes to their programming, and what happened to their audience as a result.
For the sake of…
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MONTREAL – Rogers Media’s OMNI ICI has announced plans to air Monday night’s Quebec party leaders’ debate in Arabic.
The multilingual service said that it recognizes “the need for diverse programming that connects our audiences to all facets of Canadian culture”, noting that Arabic is one of the main third languages spoken in Quebec.
The debate, scheduled for September 17 at 5:30 PM ET, will see Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard, François Legault of the Coalition Avenir Quebec, Jean-Francois Lisee of the Parti Quebecois and Québec Solidaire’s Manon Masse face off in the province’s first-ever televised English-language debate. The provincial election will take…
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OTTAWA – In a decision issued today, the Supreme Court of Canada determined that An Internet service provider can recoup its costs from copyright owners who ask the ISP to help track down internet users suspected of stealing video content to which they don’t own the rights.
As the Court determined, “An ISP can recover its costs of compliance with a Norwich order, but it is not entitled to be compensated for every cost that it incurs in complying with such an order. Recoverable costs must be reasonable and must arise from compliance…
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TORONTO – With the NHL pre-season just days away, Sportsnet said Thursday that it will serve up 56 Toronto Maple Leafs games on TV, 41 on radio, and all 82 will be livestreamed during the 2018-19 NHL season.
Sportsnet will deliver 56 Maple Leafs games on television (40 national and 16 regional broadcasts) and 41 radio games on Sportsnet 590 The FAN. Additionally, all 82 Maple Leafs matchups will be available to stream on Sportsnet NOW or Rogers NHL Live.
Toronto’s regular season campaign begins on October 3, the opening night of the NHL season, when the Maple…
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